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A 58-year-old male was assaulted by two Hispanic males on September 2 at approximately 7 p.m., near the intersection of Cabrillo Boulevard and Calle Cesar Chavez, Santa Barbara Police report. According to a statement from police spokesman Sgt. Lorenzo Duarte, the victim described the assailants but was vague about why he was attacked, saying the assault happened very quickly. The entire assault was witnessed by an off-duty police officer, unknown to the victim, who was then able to help the officers who responded to the call. Both suspects were found nearby and were later identified as Luis Cardenas, 25, and Juan Moreno Castillo, 42.

The investigation determined that initially Cardenas punched the victim in the head and was then joined by Castillo. The two suspects punched the victim’s head and upper body until he fell, at which point Cardenas continued to punch the victim while he was on the ground and Castillo reportedly “stomped” on the victim’s head several times. Both suspects were arrested on charges of felony battery, and Castillo was also arrested on charges of supplying false information because he initially gave the police a false name and date of birth.

Caitlin Crandell is an Independent intern.

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I am a Republican, I am WHITE, I was born in America, I PAY my taxes, I speak, read and write in ONLY ENGLISH. I am NOT PC correct. I have a BALD head and wear BDU's and Military boots.I guess that makes me a racist. We have an out of control problem with the LATINO Community and their gang-affiliated children. The problem starts at home with their parents and ends when we bury their children. Addressing the GANG members themselves is a waste and will only lower the respect they already don't have for the US Government and all other affiliation with LAW and Justice. The two (2) LATINOS ON ONE WHITE, shows the lack of responsiblity we hold the elders of the Latin Community. We hold them (Mothers, FATHERS and Grand-Parents) accountable for the way they refuse to raise their children and educate them in a more AMERICAN way of life or we continue to BODY-BAG their ofsprings or imprison them.Same ol, same ol.

I'm certain, dou4now, that you are not a racist because you are Republican, white, born in America, pay your taxes, speak, read, and right only in English, or are "NOT PC correct." Additionally, being bald, with tighty whities and Military boots doesn't make you racist (although I hope you are comfortable in that get-up).

What makes you a racist is your reductive and cartoonish analysis of the complex problems of racial politics, sociology, and assimilation within immigrant and minority populations.

You abandon the very idea of dialogue and conversation as tools with which to work at these issues, and apply an all-purpose solution of "holding them accountable" -- a slogan, not a course of action -- while tarring a diverse array of citizens as a homogeneous group; the very definition of racism.

What you've branded as the Latino community, implying an orthodox, pheno- and genotype ripe for your dissection and Malthusian solutions, doesn't exist.

These are my friends and neighbors you so reflexively condemn and loathe, and I feel sorry you really can't see them. They are just like "us."